The only complete system built for the American move to France
We handle French relocations for a living, so we have already read the decrees, the tax code, and the consulate rules. We built all of it into tools you run yourself, each tied to its official source and dated, in the exact order your move happens, and shaped around your profile from the very first answer.
You are excited about France. You are just afraid of getting it wrong.
You did not plan to become an expert in French paperwork. You just want to live there. But somewhere between your first search and the consulate website, this stopped feeling exciting and started feeling like a test you can fail.
- Did I even pick the right visa, or am I about to fail before I begin?
- Is my income really enough, or will they turn me down at the counter?
- Which deadline do I not know about yet, the one that quietly undoes everything?
- Am I about to make a tax mistake that follows me home to the IRS?
None of this is in your head. The rules are real, they change often, and the internet is full of half-right answers written for a different year, a different visa, or a different country. Guessing wrong is not a free redo. It costs you money you do not get back, and months of your life.
Relocation pros built these tools for you to run yourself
We do this for a living
French relocation is our day job. The tools carry what actually works in practice, learned from real moves and real prefecture queues, never from theory.
You stay in control
We built them so you do the work yourself, at your own pace, with the know-how of a pro behind every step and without agency prices or waiting on another person to be free.
Right sources, right order
Every step is tied to its official French or US source and placed in the exact sequence your move follows, so nothing is guessed and nothing lands out of turn.
Built around your exact situation
The Visitor route, the exact income proof for your case, and a plan with no work permit to chase.
The Campus France path first, the student fees and timeline, and every step lined up in the right sequence.
The work-authorization route, what your employer files, and how it converts to a residence card on time.
The Passeport Talent route, whether your profile qualifies, and the faster, longer-validity track it can open.
The Vie privee et familiale route, the fee relief you may qualify for, and a shorter road to French citizenship.
School enrollment by age and level, the documents to bring and translate, and the family steps added to your plan.
It starts with the visa built for your exact situation
Answer a few plain questions and land on the visa that actually fits your life, with the live income and salary thresholds and a clear read on each option. The guesswork ends here.
Every step of your move
Decide and qualify
Test whether the move is realistic before you commit: which visa fits your life, what it costs, and how France compares to where you live now.
Plan and budget
Put real numbers on it: your full budget, your income after French and US tax, and what to do with the home you own in the States.
Apply for the visa
File a dossier so complete you walk into your appointment certain: the exact documents, apostille and sworn translation, and the consulate that owns your case.
Prepare to leave
The logistics of leaving: what to ship and what it costs, and the customs relief you qualify for when you move your life across the Atlantic.
Land and activate
Your first weeks, in the right order: validate the visa, open a bank account, get into the health system, sort your license, and secure housing.
Settle in
Living it: French and US taxes side by side, the benefits you are owed, the health surcharge that surprises people, and your language level.
Stay and put down roots
The long game: the 10-year card, French citizenship, retirement across both systems, and the cost of buying a home, handled calmly for years.
The first month, in the only order that actually works
You land and everything wants to happen at once. But the bank wants your address, the address wants your SIM, and your healthcare clock starts whether you are ready or not. This sequences the whole month for you, one unlocked step at a time, with the OFII deadline already counting down.
What is inside
Answer a few questions and land on the visa that fits your life, with live income and salary thresholds and a clear side-by-side of your options.
See your real take-home in France, as an employee or as a micro-entrepreneur, with the 2026 social charges and tax built in.
Put both systems side by side on the same income, with the treaty, the FEIE, and the NIIT, so you can see what you would actually pay.
The true cost of your move before you commit a dollar, from official visa fees to real market estimates for shipping and deposits.
The exact document checklist for your visa, tracked piece by piece from request to ready, so nothing is forgotten on the day it counts.
One organized list of every document your move needs, with the apostille and sworn-translation flags and a place to keep your own links.
Find the consulate that owns your case in one click, then plan backward from your move date so every step lands on time.
Size your shipment, see the realistic cost range by sea or air, and check the transfer-of-residence relief that can waive the duty.
Your first weeks, choreographed. Each task unlocks in the right order on countdowns from the day you land, so nothing stalls.
Into the French health system the right way, step by step, from your first request and provisional number to the card in your wallet.
See French citizenship coming. Track every gate at once: years of residence, the B2 level, the civic exam, and a dossier that holds up.
How your US credits and French trimesters combine across the treaty, where you stand on each pension, and the WEP repeal that helps you.
And more inside, from the cost-of-living comparison and the money-transfer comparator to the housing-aid, prime, and notaire-fee estimators, plus the deadline and reminder engine and a multi-profile layer for couples and families.
Two tax calendars, finally on one screen
The IRS never lets go, and France runs its own deadlines by department. Cross $10,000 across your accounts at any point and the FBAR clock starts. See every deadline from both systems on one timeline, each one dated and sourced, so the one you did not know about cannot blindside you.
Every figure has a source and a date
Built on official sources
Every figure traces back to a government source: service-public, impots.gouv.fr, the IRS, FinCEN, and the official journals. Each module lists the references it used.
Dated, so you know how fresh it is
Each module shows the date its facts were verified, with a clear badge. You always know exactly how current the information is when you use it.
Honest about its limits
The modules point you to the official page to confirm before you rely on anything. They are educational, and they never replace legal or tax advice.
Walk into the citizenship interview already knowing the answers
Years from now, naturalization comes down to a timed civic exam. Train on the real format, 40 questions and 80 percent to pass, with a ticking clock, until the institutions, the symbols, and the values feel like second nature.
Getting it wrong is the expensive option
The long-stay visa fee is 99 €, and you do not get it back if you are refused. Add the service fee, the flights, the documents, and the weeks you waited. A refusal resets the whole clock, and you build the file again from zero.
Land on a VLS-TS and you have three months to validate it online through ANEF. Miss that window and you fall out of legal status, in a country where almost everything depends on being in status.
The US taxes you wherever you live. Miss one FBAR once your accounts cross $10,000, and a non-willful penalty alone can reach $16,536 for that single year. A French assurance-vie or PEA can quietly drop you into the PFIC rules on top.
Your French coverage starts on a provisional number that expires. Miss the birth-certificate step that makes it permanent and your reimbursements can stall, then your rights can lapse entirely until you fix it.
Any one of these costs more than the whole system. This is how you sidestep every single one, from the day you start.
See the pricePicture landing in France already in control
You step off the plane and you are not guessing. Your visa was the right one before you ever booked the appointment. Your proof of funds cleared the bar weeks ago. Your validation deadline sits in your calendar with a reminder set. You know which bank to walk into, in what order to handle everything, and what each acronym means for you.
- Instead of hoping you picked the right visa, you filed the one built for your exact situation.
- Instead of dreading the consulate, you walked in with a file you had already checked twice.
- Instead of learning about a deadline too late, you saw it coming months out.
- Instead of fearing a letter from the IRS, you knew which forms applied to you and when.
That calm is not luck. It is a sequence. It is the one we built for you.
There are three ways to do this. One fits most moves.
Piece it together yourself
- Months lost to forums and conflicting blog posts
- Rules that quietly changed, with no date to warn you
- One missed deadline or threshold can undo it all
- No order, no reminders, no single place to track it
Hire a relocation agency
- Everything handled for you, start to finish
- Usually several thousand dollars, sometimes per service
- Often works on their timeline and availability
- Support usually ends when the engagement does
Relocation Command Center
- The entire ordered system, all seven phases
- Built for the American move, the US side included
- Deadlines, reminders, and your progress saved
- Built by relocation pros, and run entirely by you
- Lifetime access, every future update included
Loved by Americans who made the move
Hundreds of US citizens trust EasyFranceNow to get to France and build a life there.
The complete toolkit behind hundreds of confident moves to France.
honestly i had no clue where to even start, just weeks of forums and conflicting answers. this mapped my whole move as one ordered list, every task in the order i actually needed it. the visa got sorted early and then i just followed the plan. first time the whole thing felt manageable
What sold me is that it hands you the entire move as a sequence. I always knew my next three tasks, what depended on what, and what was coming months out. I did not miss a single deadline because nothing was left to memory.
We landed in Lyon overwhelmed with no idea what to do first. Having every task laid out in order, bank before this, prefecture before that, finally made the whole French system make sense to us. Nothing slipped through the cracks.
I came in worried about the admin and the tax side and how little I understood any of it. Seeing the full roadmap with each step explained in plain English is what made France click for me. I stopped feeling like I was forgetting something important.
I am playing the long game toward citizenship, so I wanted the entire path mapped from day one. Everything sits in order and gets tracked as I go, so I always know where I am and what is left. Nothing gets lost.
what i needed was one place telling me what to do and in what order, instead of 40 browser tabs. every task is laid out and checked off as you go, with the official links right there. it organized the whole move and honestly paid for itself the first week
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- Every module, across all seven phases of the move
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- A multi-profile layer for couples and families
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